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Engage IPAC on voters' register ruling implementation - George Loh
His comments follow recent controversies over the meaning of the May 5, 2016 ruling by the Supreme Court on the electoral roll.
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Vice Chairman of the Parliament’s Select Committee on Constitutional, Parliamentary and Legal Affairs, George Loh who made this call said the move will ensure peaceful dialogue between the parties involved for the best interest of the country.
He was speaking on The Ghana Report, a political programme on Accra-based Viasat One television in Accra.
The Supreme Court described the country's electoral register as “reasonably inaccurate” with just six months to the election.
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The court made the statement in its ruling in a case brought before it by Abu Ramadan former National Youth Organizer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), and one Evans Nimako, challenged the credibility of the voters’ register.
The two, filed the case in December 2015, to demand for a declaration that the 2012 voters’ register contained names of persons who have not established qualification to be registered which is inconsistent with Article 42 and 45 (a) as unconstitutional, null, void and of no effect.
But the Supreme Court asked the Electoral Commission to delete the names of persons who registered and voted in the 2012 elections with the National Health Insurance card as a proof of identity from the voters' register.
The EC however after studying the ruling has said, their understanding of the ruling does not suggest the use of any new process to delete the names of those who registered with NHIS cards, since at the time of registration, there was no law barring them.
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